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From the celebrated author of theNew York TimesbestsellerBehold the Dreamerscomes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.We should have known the end was near.So begins Imbolo Mbue's devastating second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of...

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Author

Imbolo Mbue

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593229163

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction